Abstract
We present a case study that attempts to replicate the realism of a test range using a Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) simulation. Because resources are limited on a real test range, the Air Force Simulation and Analysis Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was tasked to build a simulation that emulated, to a high degree of fidelity, test range assets – the goal was to understand the impact of jamming on an enemy’s integrated air defense system. Before testing began, the simulated effects generated by the LVC simulation have to be viable, robust and realistic in order to provide credible data during later phases of experimentation. We present our approach to evaluating the correctness of the LVC simulation that considers sources of error associated with real-world radar measurements, errors caused by model abstraction and errors introduced due to real-time distributed simulation architectures, including shared state-space inconsistencies, coordinate conversion issues and a common time reference.
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